Our Mission

Sentiment Data

We produce the global standard in financial sentiment data derived from thousands of news and social media outlets

Asset Management

Our team develops alpha generation and risk management models based on marketps psychology

Investor Profiling

We integrate personality testing and practice management tools to help advisors better serve their clients

Our Data

The backbone of our research analytics

Real-Time and Multi-Dimensional

Sentiment scores are computed on a minutely basis for a variety of complex emotions and macroeconomic topics using our proprietary natural language processing engine.

Global Entity Recognition

All major investable assets are tracked, including global bonds and stock indicies, currencies, commodities, and equities. Our entity recognition covers more than 12,000 global companies.

Comprehensive Source Coverage

Monitoring of all major news and social media outlets, both print and online, with history back to 1998. Continuously updated sources, including regional stock message boards.

Our Team

Our passion is to improve financial behavior through technology

Richard Peterson, MD

Data/Consulting

Dr. Peterson is CEO of the MarketPsych group of companies where he leads MarketPsych's data and asset management division. He has trained thousands of professionals globally to leverage behavioral insights. Dr. Peterson is a board-certified psychiatrist.

Changjie Liu, MFE

Research

Changjie Liu is Head of Research at MarketPsych. He has been involved in sentiment research and trading strategies for the last eight years. At MarketPsych he investigates quantitative asset trading models based on sentiment reactions in global markets.

Diego Gutierrez

Technology

Mr. Gutierrez is CTO at MarketPsych. He has 20 years experience managing complex multitechnology projects. At MarketPsych, he architects queue handling, on-demand clusters for horizontal scalability, and language interoperability.

Aleksander Fafula, PhD

Research

For more than twelve years Dr. Fafula has worked on distributed systems related to data security and the financial markets. He has developed applications in cloud computing, data mining, time series modeling and artificial intelligence.

Tayyab Tariq

Research

Mr. Tayyab Tariq is the Chief Technology Officer at Red Buffer. Mr. Tayyab is a Fulbright scholar with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and BS in Computer Science degree from FAST – NUCES.

Mark Harbour, CFA/CPA/CIMA

Insights

Mark is the operational lead at MarketPsych Insights. He has worked as a senior integrated wealth manager to the high net worth and family office market for over 30 years. Mark is an active member of the CFA Society of Los Angeles and a past National Chair of IMCAs Wealth Management Committee.

Aaron L Gilman, CFA/CFP

Insights

Aaron developed the Insights platform. He arrived at MarketPsych from the world of financial planning, portfolio management, and wealth management services. In addition, Aaron serves as the Chief Investment Officer and president of the wealth management division for a large RIA with a national footprint.

David M. Rosenblatt Psy.D.

Consulting

Dr. Rosenblatt is an investor coach for MarketPsych, an expert in stress management, and an avid individual investor.

Recent Newsletters

August 26, 2017

The Dawn of Social Prediction

"Economists pride themselves on being the most scientific of social scientists. This leads them to reduce all human motives and behavior to quantifiable variables such as utility, welfare and income. But people are not by nature quantitative, and their motives often have no economic basis. Today’s most divisive issues, from fairness and inequality to national identity and culture, don’t have economic solutions."
~ Greg Ip. August 26, 2017. "In Defense of the Dismal Science." Wall Street Journal.

"The American company that promoted the Internet hardest in its early days, Sun Microsystems, conducted research in 1997 into how people read on the Web and concluded simply, 'They don't.' They scan, sampling words and phrases. Why? In part because any one page, on which the fluttering user happens to have lighted momentarily, competes for attention with millions more."
~ James Gleick. 1999. Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything. Vintage. p.87.

"In the same way that computers have operating systems at their core — dictating the way a computer works and serving as a foundation upon which all applications are built — everything in life has an operating system (OS). It is at the OS level that we most frequently experience a quantum leap in progress."
~ Bryan Johnson - Founder, Braintree and the OS Fund

"Much of the human experience (knowledge, disease) spreads by proximity, and for any one person the number of elbows in proximity has exploded. In past times, even in the most crowded city, we lived close enough to only a few people to, say, read their journals or track the temperature of their hot tubs. Now, in hordes, they put that information on-line. The multiplication of information pathways leads to positive feedback effects in the nature of frenzies."
~ James Gleick. 1999. Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything. Vintage. p.86.

The Story-telling Cycle in Markets

Almost 99 percent you realize is just stories in our minds. This is also true of history. Most people, they just get overwhelmed by the religious stories, by the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and they take these stories to be the reality.
~ Yuval Hariri, Historian and author of the books "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus"

Money is probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value. It's not like a banana or a coconut. If you take a dollar bill and look at it, you can't eat it. You can't drink it. You can't wear it. It's absolutely worthless. We think it's worth something because we believe a story. We have these master storytellers of our society, our shamans — they are the bankers and the financiers and the chairperson of the Federal Reserve, and they come to us with this amazing story that, "You see this green piece of paper? We tell you that it is worth one banana."
~ Yuval Hariri

“It’s a motivated decision to say ‘no’ to learning available but unwanted information .... People avoid information if it’s going to make them feel or behave or think in a way they don’t want to”—especially any evidence that could jeopardize their belief in their competence and autonomy or could require taking difficult or prolonged action."
~ Jason Zweig citing Jennifer Howell, a psychologist at Ohio University, in his excellent column in the WSJ

On the first trading day of this year Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen’s laptop pops open. He sees right away that something special is going on. The MarketPsych Indices, the system by which NN Investment Partners [formerly ING] measure sentiment in the market, are coming in…words that are associated with stress and gloom course through digital media...

The main strategist of the Dutch asset manager, with € 187 billion under management, taps the brakes: he reduces investments in shares and raises more cash. Later that week the stress spreads: worldwide stock markets went down sharply...

Switzerland, Neurofinance, and When to Sell in a Bull Market

“When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing."
~ Chuck Price (then CEO of Citigroup) to the Financial Times on July 9, 2007.

"The current level of the CAPE ratio 'would suggest reducing your holdings of stocks, especially for a long-term investor. We can't time the market accurately, but we know that when it's this high, over the long term, it usually doesn't do great.'"
~ Robert Shiller quoted in CNBC, February 24, 2017

"Merchant: In this chaos of opinions, which one is the most prudent?
Shareholder: To go in the direction of the waves and not to fight against the currents."
~ Joseph De La Vega. 1688. "Confusion de las Confusiones." (The first book about the operations of a stock market, the Amsterdam Exchange).